OT - FTP & Firewalls etc

[Rick Gaskin]

Thank you for the information.

I will forward this to my IT people.

Bruce form Telegram Press (a fellow creator list member) was able to 
solve my FTP issue.

His generosity is greatly appreciated.

Thank you Bruce!!

Luke McNeilage wrote:
>> She does not have static IP at home and we have a firewall. Any attempts
>> to set her up so that she can access from home have failed (her IP
>> address keeps changing)
>>     
>
> That's sounds like a ridiculously heavy firewall. It sounds more like you
> need to upgrade your FTP server. Just open all IP access on port 21, or at
> least the subnet of her ISP if you can narrow it down to that. Make sure
> your FTP doesn't allow anonymous or guest login. Make sure your gateway
> doesn't respond to anonymous internet requests like ping, telnet and finger.
>
> As long as your client has a strong username and password, you'll be fine.
>
> If you don't want anybody snooping your clients username and password,
> upgrade to secure FTP on port 115, but your client will need a FTP client
> that will support sFTP, like filezilla (PC and Mac) or Transmit (Mac), as
> sFTP isn't supported in the OS.
>
> I've been doing this for a very long time on over 100 servers, and never had
> a problem. Well once, but that was a guest guest account and some dumb
> russian tried to upload a spoof webpage, but because I keep my FTP server
> and my HTTP server separate (don't run IIS) it wasn't a problem.
>   

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